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Captain Cook Festival – 250th Anniversary Celebrations in Whitby 6-8 July 2018
https://www.discoveryork...com/whitby/cook250.aspx
To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Cook setting sail on the Endeavour to circumnavigate and chart New Zealand and chart the east coast of Australia, one of only two replica Endeavour ships is to become a new tourist attraction in Whitby..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/new...orth-yorkshire-41649817
In celebration of Cook 250, ModelSpace is holding a competition which starts on the 1st of June, giving the chance to win either a Caldercraft 1/64 HM Bark Endeavour or Artesania 1/50 'Endeavour' Longboat kit
Build in 1 month” - a replica 1:64 scale 'Endeavour' 4-pounder Cannon.
Competition rules:
1. The Cook 250 competition is open to UK ModelSpace members only.
2. Entrants must have made at least 25 posts into the forum since the 1st Jan 2018, ahead of the competition start date (1st June 2018).
3. A 4-pdr cannon kit will be supplied free of charge to each Cook 250 entrant; planned for despatch week commencing 28th May 2018. - Entrants should PM Tomick to provide name/address detail to facilitate receipt of a cannon kit.
4. How your Endeavour cannon is constructed, presented or enhanced is your own choice, (diorama also acceptable). (The cannon kit comprises of: Turned brass gun barrel, wooden carriage assembly, quoin & quoin base, brass trunnion brackets, brass pins, copper/brass eyelets, brass trunnion and bed bolts).
5. If you choose to enter/receive a cannon kit, you are obliged to create a diary build. Note: No diary build = exemption from all future competitions.
6. Entrants cannon build diaries must be posted exclusively on ModelSpace. Note: Entry close is the 5th June 2018.
7. You can announce your build diary at any time. However, builds must not be started until on or after the 1st June 2018 and the build be complete no later than the 30th June 2018.
8. Entries must be nominated as "Cook 250 - Endeavour cannon build competition entry" within the text content of the first post in your Build Diary (not in the post title). Note: No "Cook 250" nomination = void entry.
9. One entry per member/person permitted.
10. The Cook 250 prize Winner and Runner-up will be chosen by the Cook Museum and announced around the 1st/2nd July 2018 just ahead of the Cook 250 Whitby anniversary celebrations 6-8th July 2018. https://www.discoveryork...com/whitby/cook250.aspx
Winner and Runner-up Prizes
Winner Prize: 1x Caldercraft 1:64 HM Bark Endeavour 1768 model kit, plus Admiralty paint set (white or brown hull choice).
This fabulous kit includes CNC cut ply and walnut components throughout; double planking in lime & walnut; etched brass & turned brass fittings; cast metal decorations & figurehead; rigging threads; a set of four plank on frame ships boats; detailed construction plans and a comprehensive instruction manual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWs4J06Yrcs
Runner-up Prize: 1x Artesania Latina 1:50 Endeavour 'Longboat' model kit.
This fabulous kit is aimed at those who want to start in the world of period ship modelling and includes laser-cut ply parts; hand-sewn sails; rigging threads; brass & die-cast metal parts; pedestal display stand and detailed construction plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvFoExFTgI
Good luck to all entrants!
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Cranes on site as work begins to move the Endeavour replica from Stockton to Whitby...
https://www.gazettelive....rk-begins-move-14435251
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Wiw thats a very good prize, looking forward to this Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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A great prize and Whitby is always worth a visit  Al
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Whitby's great (fish and chips or crab sandwich  ), and the meseum is definately worth a visit. The Jotika/Caldercraft kits are excellent. very well put together and their backup is excellent! A great prize for a great competition.
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Atop the West cliffs of Whitby stands a monument to the town's historic past; the huge jaw bones of a whale, a monument to those caught by Whitby fishermen - standing at an impressive height next to the monument of Captain Cook.
It was in 1753, as Cook's career was just taking off, that several Whitby merchants initially came together with just two ships to form the Whitby Whaling Company and set off from Whitby harbour to Greenland. The early whalers consisted of both local fishermen and a number of more experienced Dutch specialists.
Between 1753 and 1833 there were 55 whaling ships operating from the harbour and by 1768 a Whitby ship, Jenny, was noted as one of the two most successful whaling ships in the whole of the British fleet.
As a career whaling offered local men money and excitement hand in hand with danger; many men were lost to hazardous seas and the extreme weather conditions of the North.
Also, not forgetting that Whitby also inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula..
http://www.english-herit...ctorian/dracula-whitby/
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Spal wrote:A great prize and Whitby is always worth a visit Al I do love whitby but its always heaving with people, some nice ship models in the museum as well “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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jase wrote:Wiw thats a very good prize, looking forward to this
Jase There will also be a runner-up prize of the Artesania 1/50 Endeavour Longboat kit 
https://www.artesanialat...del-ship-beginners.html
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Now two great prizes on offer Al
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Another great competition from modelspace, great prizes to go with it.. Chris On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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Oooh another day out to put in the diary.  Never been to Whitby and if the fish and chips are good that`s two reasons to go.  Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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delboy271155 wrote:Oooh another day out to put in the diary. Never been to Whitby and if the fish and chips are good that`s two reasons to go. Regards delboy271155 (Derek) You’ll love the place., it’s also where Bram Stoker created the Dracula story after staying there and seeing the Abbey. The famous Magpie Cafe reportedly has the best Fish n Chips in the UK http://www.magpiecafe.co.uk but be prepared to queue 
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Tomick wrote:delboy271155 wrote:Oooh another day out to put in the diary. Never been to Whitby and if the fish and chips are good that`s two reasons to go. Regards delboy271155 (Derek) You’ll love the place., it’s also where Bram Stoker created the Dracula story after staying there and seeing the Abbey. The famous Magpie Cafe reportedly has the best Fish n Chips in the UK http://www.magpiecafe.co.uk but be prepared to queue It will be a six hour return journey so I`m prepared to wait to get fed well. Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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Another fab competition to look forward to with great prizes on offer too..... Regards Alan
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The first leg of the replica Endeavour journey from Stockton to Whitby has been done..
https://www.gazettelive....r-replica-sets-14497210
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Captain Cook 250 competition!
“Build in 1 month” - a replica 1:64 scale 'Endeavour' 4-pounder Cannon.
Competition rules:
1. The Cook 250 competition is open to UK ModelSpace members only.
2. Entrants must have made at least 25 posts into the forum since the 1st Jan 2018, ahead of the competition start date (1st June 2018).
3. A 4-pdr cannon kit will be supplied free of charge to each Cook 250 entrant; planned for despatch week commencing 28th May 2018. - Entrants should PM Tomick to provide name/address detail to facilitate receipt of a cannon kit.
4. How your Endeavour cannon is constructed, presented or enhanced is your own choice, (diorama also acceptable). (The cannon kit comprises of: Turned brass gun barrel, wooden carriage assembly, quoin & quoin base, brass trunnion brackets, brass pins, copper/brass eyelets, brass trunnion and bed bolts).
5. If you choose to enter/receive a cannon kit, you are obliged to create a diary build. Note: No diary build = exemption from all future competitions.
6. Entrants cannon build diaries must be posted exclusively on ModelSpace. Note: Entry close is the 5th June 2018.
7. You can announce your build diary at any time. However, builds must not be started until on or after the 1st June 2018 and the build be complete no later than the 30th June 2018.
8. Entries must be nominated as "Cook 250 - Endeavour cannon build competition entry" within the text content of the first post in your Build Diary (not in the post title). Note: No "Cook 250" nomination = void entry.
9. One entry per member/person permitted.
10. The Cook 250 prize Winner and Runner-up will be chosen by the Cook Museum and announced around the 1st/2nd July 2018 just ahead of the Cook 250 Whitby anniversary celebrations 6-8th July 2018. https://www.discoveryork...com/whitby/cook250.aspx
Winner and Runner-up Prizes
Winner Prize: 1x Caldercraft 1:64 HM Bark Endeavour 1768 model kit, plus Admiralty paint set (white or brown hull choice).
This fabulous kit includes CNC cut ply and walnut components throughout; double planking in lime & walnut; etched brass & turned brass fittings; cast metal decorations & figurehead; rigging threads; a set of four plank on frame ships boats; detailed construction plans and a comprehensive instruction manual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWs4J06Yrcs
Runner-up Prize: 1x Artesania Latina 1:50 Endeavour 'Longboat' model kit.
This fabulous kit is aimed at those who want to start in the world of period ship modelling and includes laser-cut ply parts; hand-sewn sails; rigging threads; brass & die-cast metal parts; pedestal display stand and detailed construction plans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvFoExFTgI
How the 'Earl of Pembroke' was transformed into the HM Bark Endeavour...
On 27 May 1768, Cook took command of the Earl of Pembroke, valued in March at £2,307 but ultimately purchased for £2,840 and assigned for use in the Society's expedition. She was refitted at Deptford on the River Thames for the sum of £2,294, almost the price of the ship itself. The hull was sheathed and caulked to protect against shipworm, and a third internal deck installed to provide cabins, a powder magazine and storerooms. The new cabins provided around 2 square metres (22 sq ft) of floorspace apiece and were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles Green, and artists Sydney Parkinson and Alexander Buchan. These cabins encircled the officer's mess. The Great Cabin at the rear of the deck was designed as a workroom for Cook and the Royal Society. On the rear lower deck, cabins facing on to the mate's mess were assigned to Lieutenants Zachary Hickes and John Gore, ship's surgeon William Monkhouse, the gunner Stephen Forwood, ship's master Robert Molyneux, and the captain's clerk Richard Orton. The adjoining open mess deck provided sleeping and living quarters for the marines and crew, and additional storage space.
A longboat, pinnace and yawl were provided as ship's boats, though the longboat was rotten and had to be rebuilt and painted with white lead before it could be brought aboard. These were accompanied by two privately owned skiffs, one belonging to the boatswain John Gathrey, and the other to Banks. The ship was also equipped with a set of 28 ft (8.5 m) sweeps to allow her to be rowed forward if becalmed or demasted. The refitted vessel was commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour, to distinguish her from the 4-gun cutter HMS Endeavour.
On 21 July 1768, Endeavour sailed to Galleon's Reach to take on armaments to protect her against potentially hostile Pacific island natives. Ten 4-pounder cannons were brought aboard, six of which were mounted on the upper deck and the remainder stowed in the hold. Twelve swivel guns were also supplied, and fixed to posts along the quarterdeck, sides and bow. The Endeavour departed for Plymouth on 30 July, for provisioning and to board her crew of 85, including 12 Royal Marines. Cook also ordered that twelve tons of pig iron be brought on board as sailing ballast. The rest is sailing History....
Recovered 'Endeavour' cannon: http://www.nma.gov.au/co...lights/endeavour-cannon
Cook 250 worldwide events...
https://www.captaincooks...e/detail/commemorations
The photos show of a real life 'Endeavour' 4-pdr cannon; the cannon kit and assembly diagram.
Good luck to all Entrants!Tomick attached the following image(s):
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Another great comp to go for Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Great prizes on offer
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It will be interesting to see people's take on this...hmm thinking cap on...
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